Common subcanopy trees

MEDICINAL PROPERTIES
Large trees up to 28 m tall. Bark is brown, large flaky or exfoliating; blaze outer bark red and inner cream. The young branchlets slender, terete, tawny pubescent and stellate hairy. Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; stipules lateral, with two linear subulate appendages, densely stellate tomentose, caducous; petiole ca. 0.1 cm long, terete, stellate tomentose; lamina 4.5-10 x 1.5-3 cm, narrow oblong-lanceolate, apex acuminate, base asymmetric often subpeltate, margin entire, chartaceous, tawny pubescent and stellate hairy; midrib flat above; 3-nerved at base; secondary_nerves 5-7 pairs, ascending; tertiary_nerves reticulo-percurrent. Flowers are white, solitary, axillary; pedicels up to 0.5 cm long.
The bark of Ellooti after removing the outer dead layer is crushed to paste with lukewarm water. The bone is held back to normal healing position and the paste is applied over the area.